Resources
High level Slides These are "public lecture" level slides I sometimes show on the first class of the quarter (not planned for 2021)
SDSS (includes fly-through movie of the SDSS galaxy survey)
- FRW notes These notes contain all the basic equations for FRW cosmology collected (almost) as concisely as possible. We will discuss these during the first couple of lectures.
- Notes on dimensional analysis
- Handwritten Notes
- 262N1.0 (Particles in equilibrium in the cosmos, updated 4/11/21)
- 262N2.0 (Particles in eqm. continued)
262N3.0 (Entropy conservation and Neutrino decoupling)(4/14/21: I discovered quite a few typos in this PDF. I've removed the post, and refer you to the lecture notes posted here: Entropy conservation and neutrino decoupling (Web view) in OneNote, which I belive are corrected. (1N pages are only available to enrolled students).
- Slides on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Review article on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis by Keith Olive from 2004 (PDF, Journal)
- Slides on the Ising Model (Illustration of a phase transition)
- Slides on Cosmic Defects
- David Wittman's slides from his 2/5/20 guest lecture on lensing
- Slides on Dark Energy (updated 5/16/21)
- Dark Energy Task Force report and follow up work
- Additional reading on Dark Energy
- Cosmology with a primordial scaling field (related to HW5)
- Phenomenology of a realistic accelerating universe using only Planck-scale physics (related to HW5)
- Dynamics of Dark Energy (review article on quintessence models).
- Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe (review article about dark energy)
- My Les Houches slides on Inflation
- These slides (from my November 2019 colloquium at the Niels Bohr Institute) are a more recent version of the Les Houches part 3 slides. I used these for the March 11 and 13 2020 online lectures (pdf, ppt). More material on this topic can be found here
- Inflation slides This is a selection of slides I have collected over the years for this course. They are mostly superseded by the Les Houches lectures, but for some topics, such as the "arrow of time basics" section they go into more depth. I will switch back and forth between these and the Les Houches lectures as needed.
- Inflation, Tuning and Measure (Slides from the 2015 "CosmoCruise" conferee, related to Les Houches Part 2)
- Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse (2015 talk, related to Les Houches Part 3)
- Articles etc on Cosmic Inflation
- A. Starobinsky; A new type of isotropic cosmological models without singularity
- A. Guth; The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems
- A. Linde: A New Inflationary Universe Scenario: A Possible Solution of the Horizon, Flatness, Homogeneity, Isotropy and Primordial Monopole Problems
- A. Albrecht and P. Steinhardt: Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking
- N. Kaloper: Inflationary Cosmology: Introduction in The Art of Universe Making (book)
- A. Albrecht: Tuning, Ergodicity, Equilibrium and Cosmology
- A. Albrecht and D. Phillips: The origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse
- A. Guth: Eternal inflation and its implications
- A. Llinde: Inflationary Cosmology after Planck 2013
- Reviews of cosmological perturbations (from cosmic inflation)
- Theory of cosmological perturbations; Mukhanov Feldman and Brandenberger (A classic reference)
- 2008 TASI Lectures on Inflation; Kinney (Recommended by Ben Richard)
- 2009 TASI Lectures on Inflation, Baumann (Recommended by Ben Richard)
- DAMTP notes on Cosmic Inflation Baumann